Re: Traceable Infrastructure is as vulnerable as traceable messa ges.
On Mon, Aug 13, 2001 at 10:30:14AM -0400, Trei, Peter wrote:
If MS ever decided that they were losing money due to poor security, they would get good at it, fast. How many fewer copies of WinXP will they sell due to Code Red I, II, and III? Not many. A few (a very few) sysadmins may decide to go with Apache instead of IIS. It's not like many home or corporate users are going to switch to Linux purely due to security issues.
Especially with the press constantly telling them "Linux is hard". Most people know that MS software is buggy and inecure. But they think that it is normal to have to reboot your computer daily and to get infected with worms through your email. After all, it's the same for all their friends and co-workers, how can they even know to expect anything else? Almost all the press tells them that MS is the only way to go and that anything else is wierd and hard to run. The unreliability and security holes are just a burden to be borne... it's remarkable how much people can tolerate if it's done to them gradually.
I'm aware of exactly two datapoints - Skipjack (which wasn't good enough that anyone wanted to use it), and the recent 'dual counter mode' snafu. That's not enough to draw broad conclusions.
SHA-2? Still not enough to draw conclusions. Eric
On Mon, 13 Aug 2001, Eric Murray wrote:
Especially with the press constantly telling them "Linux is hard".
If they listen to the press, they have only themselves to blame. Sheep frequently end as yummy lamb chops.
Most people know that MS software is buggy and inecure. But they think that it is normal to have to reboot your computer daily and to get infected with worms through your email. After all, it's the same for all their friends and co-workers, how can they even know to expect anything else?
Does ignorance make you somehow immune against consequences? One can acquire new friends, or use the frigging search engine instead of the game/Bud afternoon, for starters.
Almost all the press tells them that MS is the only way to go and that anything else is wierd and hard to run. The unreliability and
Awww, my heart bleeds for the poor lambs.
security holes are just a burden to be borne... it's remarkable how much people can tolerate if it's done to them gradually.
If they tolerate it, it isn't hurting bad enough. Why don't you let Darwin sort them out? If they think NT in naval hardware context or Outlook on the ISS is a smart thing to do, why don't you let them find it out the hard way? Of course it limits your choices if you make a living in IT, but there are always niches. If it gets bad enough, you can always find a few sensible folks, or an entirely new field. -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204/">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBMTO : N48 10'07'' E011 33'53'' http://www.lrz.de/~ui22204 57F9CFD3: ED90 0433 EB74 E4A9 537F CFF5 86E7 629B 57F9 CFD3
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